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Plastic Optical Fibre: Cheap and Bendy

Posted by timothy on from the fast-cheap-not-yet-out-of-control dept.

Motivator_Bob writes: "The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on making optical fibres from plastic rather than the traditional glass."Advances in optical-fibre making at the Australian Photonics research centre could bring communications at the speed of light into Australian homes and businesses in the next few years. The advance - microstructured polymer optical fibres (MPOF) - allows the manufacture of optical fibres that are much smaller, cheaper, more rugged and easier to make than glass fibres..."

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  1. Cheap and Bendy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just like my first post.

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it...

  3. Gosh, Yet Another Australian Story! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And, yep, it's a feeble no-news one, as always. Makes you wonder who's really running /. these days, huh?

  4. MOD THIS UP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Apparently a troll in the past, but he is absolutely correct. Shoot him some karma!

  5. Cheap and Bendy? by JTFritz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Dammit... I saw cheap and bendy and thought this was a Natalie Portman story. timothy, I rate you a -1 OffTopic!

  6. Re:Deep inside the ISP boardrooms by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not sure if this falls into the category of funny. More like sad, but true.

  7. Ob nitpicky comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Fiber's the American spelling of it.
    England and the (ex-)British colonies write fibre.    "

    So which is it? Are "the rules..."really "...different in Florida"?